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by Marie Cohen Recognizing implicit bias in mandated reporting training is a national focus for addressing racial inequity in childwelfare. I had my first experience with the updated training last month as part of my preparation to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for a child in fostercare.
A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting has passed the Texas Legislature. I have written often about how the entire debate over what to do about childwelfare has been poisoned by “health terrorism,” the misrepresentation of the true nature and scope of a problem in the name of “raising awareness.”
Police officers and childwelfare caseworkers were ordering a woman to open her front door. Here’s how ProPublica describes one encounter: It was 5:30 a.m. Flashlights beamed in through the windows of the ground-floor apartment in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. When she did, the first thing she saw was that the police had their guns drawn.
Two cases illustrate the need for those good, bipartisan "childwelfare" laws the Texas Legislature has been passing lately. The story also quoted a state legislator opposed to a new Texas law that, in most cases, replaces anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse and neglect with confidential reporting.
This is the text of the NCCPR’s presentation at the 2024 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change ChildWelfare What the cover says How many times have we heard it or read it? Well, it helps if your definition of abuse includes anything that might affect a child’s well-being.
Now, childwelfare leader KVC Health Systems and graduate students at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kansas are working together to unlock the power of data analytics for the state’s most vulnerable children – those served by the childwelfare system.
Roberts discusses her book, and racism in childwelfare with Marc Lamont Hill And here with Ali Velshi on MSNBC: ? It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some “childwelfare” agency announcing an initiative that supposedly will make family policing kinder and gentler. Velshi refers to Prof.
. ● Remember the children who were torn from their parents and thrown into fostercare because the parents committed the crime of Driving While Black? They should do what Texas did and largely replace it with confidential reporting, in which the accused still doesn’t know the name of the accuser, but the family police do. ●
This is the text of the first of two NCCPR presentations at the 2021 Kempe Center International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change ChildWelfare Most Court-Appointed Special Advocates programs call themselves CASA programs – as you’d expect. They can effectively decide if the child stays in fostercare.
. ● Another key problem with child abuse reporting: allowing people to report with total anonymity. KDVR-TV reports on a bill that would replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. ● With the Indian ChildWelfare Act facing a challenge before the U.S. That, too, is under scrutiny in Colorado.
Now The Imprint reports on how the same agency used the same tactics to undermine legislation to replace anonymous child abuse reporting with confidential reporting. Also in New York, but applicable everywhere: This Daily News op-ed from family defenders on why the worst way to respond to child abuse fatalities is foster-care panic. ●
There’s lots to link to, but the two journalists who know the Indian ChildWelfare Act – and the case that led up to last week’s decision – best are probably Rebecca Nagle, who produced the This Land podcast about the case – she discusses the decision here – and Nancy Marie Spears of The Imprint , who wrote about the decision here.
Before the news, a note about an upcoming event: The so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act neither prevents nor treats child abuse – rather it reinforces the foundations of the childwelfare surveillance state. But the horrors about fostercare in Kansas are not coming from kinship caregivers.
A 12-year-old Native Alaskan girl in fostercare says she wants to commit suicide. What could be better for a child like that than to ditch her in a hospital for a week, all alone, without telling her family, or anyone else, where she is? I have a blog post about it. --A That’s not unusual.
And it touches on multiple vital issues in family policing, including the harm of the so-called Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and the dangers of “predictive analytics” algorithms in “childwelfare.” This case has significant implications well beyond Pittsburgh.
For those on it, it is alleged, this state will rely on a network of informers to plunder confidential records and spy on any mother they deem high risk. Her confidential medical records were obtained and read by strangers without her knowledge. in which the [childwelfare agency] citing concerns about A.V.s knowledge.
ChildWelfare Specialist : Social workers in this role focus on the safety and well-being of children, often within the context of child protective services or fostercare systems. Confidentiality: Maintaining strict confidentiality is essential.
Some advocates in Maine have tried to use one data point in the federal governments annual Child Maltreatment report to justify the states ongoing foster-care panic. For those on it, it is alleged, this state will rely on a network of informers to plunder confidential records and spy on any mother they deem high risk.
OVERVIEWS OF FAMILY POLICING FAILURE You hear it from family police agencies (a more accurate term than childwelfare agencies) all the time: We never take children because of poverty alone. Fatalities where child abuse or neglect was confirmed have continued to decline through the recent period of fewer fostercare removals.
This side of the childwelfare story - what happens to mothers like Alexis after their children enter the system - is seldom seen. If anyone still doubts the need to replace anonymous reporting of alleged child abuse with confidential reporting, check out this story from ProPublica. Here’s how it begins: It was 5:30 a.m.
Also pending before the New York State Legislature: A bill to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting. Imagine if we approached someone with uncontrolled diabetes and said, 'Listen, if your baby's born weighing 12 pounds because you have uncontrolled diabetes, you may have childwelfare involvement,'" Patrick said.
Another former foster youth with public policy expertise, Sixto Cancel, wrote a powerful guest essay for The New York Times – and childwelfare establishment types promptly did everything they could to subvert it. How good is this? I have a blog post about the efforts at subversion. In other news: ? And finally … ?
So the only real answer is to replace anonymous reporting with confidential reporting – as Texas has done , though too late to prevent a tragedy. --All All the caller – whoever it was – had to say to trigger an investigation was that the woman smoked marijuana in front of her child – even though marijuana is legal in New Jersey.
The state capitol in Austin What the Tribune (and the Dallas Morning News ) can’t face is that after decades of seeing the system that calls itself “childwelfare” do enormous harm to children, people across the political spectrum are coming together and finding common ground. But it still has a long way to go.
The family policing establishment (a more accurate term than childwelfare establishment) has not yet taken me up on that, and Im not about to unilaterally disarm. Not cant tell you the confidentiality laws family police agencies hide behind generally are there because the agencies want them there so they can hide their failings.
Fong asks in a commentary for the Hartford Courant if the head of the state’s family police agency will make sure there’s no foster-care panic. She writes: DCF has expressed a commitment to keeping families together, and has worked, impressively, to decrease fostercare caseloads and refer families to community supports.
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